Patch 5.4 Gear Guide: SoO, Timeless Isle, and Crafted Items

With the raid Siege of Orgrimmar in Patch 5.4, it's time for another patch gearing guide! In this guide, we've organized all the new epic gear by armor type, base stats, and source to help you quickly browse the available gear options. We've covered Siege of Orgrimmar loot on all difficulties, Timeless Isle items, and some crafting gear.

We've also got some tips on how to gear up for Siege of Orgrimmar LFR which opens on September 17. While we do show LFR and Flex loot in our loot tables below, keep in mind that some of these items aren't accessible for a while due to the weekly gating system, as detailed here.

Bonus rolls: Bonus rolls can be used in all difficulties to acquire an additional piece of loot. The type of loot is based on your selected Loot Specialization. To see what drops for your spec, check out the Loot Specialization filter details on boss and item pages.Warforged Gear: These items drop in Normal and Heroic and are 6 item levels higher than usual. They have a low chance to drop and can be found more frequently on 25s. We haven't included these versions on the loot tables in the interest of space, but you can find them listed on our boss pages.World Bosses:

The four celestial bosses (Xuen, Yu'lon, Niuzao, Chi-Ji) drop Season 14 PvP gear as well as Tier 16 normal gloves and pants.

Ordos drop special ilvl 559 loot and requires one of your characters to have the legendary cloak for kill credit.

To further search for gear, check out our items filters which include filters for all difficulties, stats, armor types, armor slots, and Warforged gear.Want to save a list of gear upgrades for your character? Make a custom list with our Profiler tool!

This loot is more suitable for players gearing up alts or trying to get into LFR.

BoA armor tokens:These tokens are ilvl 496 and when opened, turn into a spec-appropriate item. The tokens can be mailed to alts. Some of these items have sockets, such as the helm, chest, and pants.

There are tokens for individual slot/armor combos that can be looted from chests and dropped from elite/rare mobs, as well as Timeless Caches for a certain armor type that can be bought for 0 Timeless Coin.

These weapons cost between 0 Timeless Coin and 0 Timeless Coin coins and are sold by Mistweaver Ai. They are not BoA and are lower ilvl than other items sold by the Timeless Isle vendors, but they are a good starting weapon for new players not doing heroics or Tier 14 LFR.

Existing Loot Changes

We haven't included old loot in the tables below, but some changes have been made to make things easier to hit ilvl 496 for Siege of Orgrimmar:

Epics that formerly required MoP reputation (all factions save for Shado-Pan Assault) now have the reputation requirements listed and instead cost Justice Points. This is a great way to get some easy ilvl 489-496 gear.

Tyrannical PvP gear now costs Honor and is also ilvl 496, which isn't a bad way to get some epics with sockets. There are also ilvl 458 and ilvl 476 crafted Dreadful and Malevolent BoE PvP gear options.

To learn more about currency and reputation gear changes, check out our 5.4 guide.

Comment by WoWman95

Comment by perculia

I didn't think the Timeless Isle ilvl 476 weapons were a good use of the coins when they could be used on ilvl 535 trinkets/Burdens instead, but I can put that in if people find it useful.

Edit: Fixed the int neck, added the weapons to the tables, put an explanation of how these are good starter weapons, but lower item level than other Timeless gear, in the intro section.

Comment by Alkony

on 2013/09/14 11:31:53

I didn't think the Timeless Isle ilvl 476 weapons were a good use of the coins when they could be used on ilvl 535 trinkets/Burdens instead, but I can put that in if people find it useful.

Edit: Fixed the int neck, added the weapons to the tables, put an explanation of how these are good starter weapons, but lower item level than other Timeless gear, in the intro section.

Thanks for adding the vendor weapon info, Perculia. I know I have a couple alts who are going into Timeless gear from questing greens, so the 476 weapons are still a major upgrade from their current 429 weapons.

Comment by Bobbyboy45494

on 2013/09/14 21:23:39

The one-handed heirloom dagger is in the one-handed mace section.

Comment by perculia

on 2013/09/17 11:47:16

This should now be fixed, thanks for the report.

Comment by Iceveiled

on 2013/09/17 11:53:30

Tidy guide!

Comment by yukonjack

on 2013/09/17 14:59:19

I seem to fail at reading, I saw crafted gear mentioned in the title but did not see it in the article.

Comment by Azrile

on 2013/09/18 04:36:31

I didn't think the Timeless Isle ilvl 476 weapons were a good use of the coins when they could be used on ilvl 535 trinkets/Burdens instead, but I can put that in if people find it useful.

Edit: Fixed the int neck, added the weapons to the tables, put an explanation of how these are good starter weapons, but lower item level than other Timeless gear, in the intro section.

even with all that 496 gear, grinding 50k timeless coins is a huge ´burden´ (pun intended) if you are using like a 440 green weapon. Most of my alts have all the 496 gear and a 450 or 463 weapon and no WAY in heck am I grinding 50k timeless coins. Mostly I am using the freebie quests and the pet tamer to get the 476 weapons.. and then they are retired for the most part.

I think the path of least resistance for brand new 90s who want to run SoO LFR is to get all the 496 tokens,then run ToT one time and enough heroics to get enough VP to buy one piece of SPA gear and use 10k timeless coins to get the weapon if you had crappy luck in your TOT, . If your main has all your tokens waiting for you, it should take a fresh 90 about 8 hours to get into SoO. If you can get in a group that can get you to the blazing chest (guaranteed burden), that is great. And also, check out this site for a guide to doing the treasure chests. Just by doing the chests (takes an hour tops) you will have about 6k coins and a decent chance at another burden.

Comment by LifeFeel

on 2013/09/18 05:45:32

Strength Plate section - Waist and Legs crafted items are swapped.

Comment by Kerosus

on 2013/09/18 21:41:56

I cant be the only one who raged about getting a 535 item with only one bonus stat :/

Comment by timbazi

on 2013/09/19 08:25:30

I already got the caster dps cloak from Immerseus on LFR and Flexible mode, TWICE. and I already have the legendary cape.... at least I'm an enchanter...

Comment by suntauren

on 2013/09/19 08:26:37

Nice !Thanks for making this guide.Very helpful for when I come back or gearing alts.

Comment by Gizeeh

on 2013/11/15 05:02:55

I have looked arround the whole net but did not find any information about: what is best? timeless gear or LFR Tier gear? Well i have only rings,bracer and head from timeless gear equipped,rest is from flex,celestials,legendary cloak and a neck from normal soo. Some people told me that i should use timeless rings until i get better, but im wondering if i should use my LFR Helmet of Barbed of assasination and the Chest of same set over my timeless chest and head? but if i change those out i loose my 4 set bonus,so that's why i wondering if it's worth it?

Comment by Nulgar

on 2013/11/15 05:19:22

Set items are always worth more because of the set boni, of course.Timeless gear has random secondary stats, so you may get unfavorable ones. And I think only the helm and chest have sockets, which are more common on LFR gear.Since you also run Flex, I'd say it's not worth the effort to upgrade from LFR to Timeless. Especially if you already upgraded the LFR items.

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